Re: Plotting problem

[Thomas Treichl]

Thomas Treichl schrieb:
> William Miner schrieb:
> > John,
> >
> > Thanks but I had already tried that and it didn't work (see below)
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 williamminer  staff     133 Aug 17 14:02 test_plot.m
> >
> > fin1:Octave williamminer$ ./test_plot.m
> > ./test_plot.m: line 2: t: command not found
> > ./test_plot.m: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `t,'
> > ./test_plot.m: line 3: `plot (t, cos(t), "-;cos(t);", t, sin(t),
> > "+3;sin(t);");'
> > fin1:Octave williamminer$
> >
> > Buff
>
> Hi,
>
> I think your problem is that the shebang line
>
>    #!/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave -qf
>
> does not work. The reason why this actually doesn't work is Mac's sh which (I 
> read this on several cites for other programs) does not accept shebang lines 
> with more than 31 characters for the startup script... Your workaround for this 
> could be this shebang line instead:
>
>    #!/bin/sh /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave -qf
>
> Hope this helps,
> best regards
>
>    Thomas

Hi again,

sorry, I didn't read carefully, this might not be the reason on your Mac because 
I see that Octave has been launched already in the error message. Then my last 
tip is, you maybe saved your test_plot.m script as "Mac text file" which doesn't 
work with Octave. This happens eg. if you use TextEdit.app for writing and 
saving the text file. I personally use eg. Carbon\ Emacs.app which per default 
saves files as Unix text file.

Sorry again for telling nonsense

  Thomas